Gone Hot Rockpile

Forgotten. Cobalt the world’s best IT fish.

The creator -who voices the main character - truly makes this story great. She’s good. Compared to a lot of these kinds of podcasts she sounds like a pro actress. Maybe she is one I don’t know but this podcast is her unfunded creation. For making and publishing this thing completely on her own - it’s all very impressive. Her voice is uniquely easy to listen to in tone as well. What I mean is that there is nothing high pitched, screechy or stressful about it. Which is unfortunately kind of rare when it comes to female voices in the fiction podcast world. I don’t personally connect with the character but that’s just me. I know there are tons of people out there who will definitely connect with her and for whom she will feel familiar. The story is interesting enough to pull you in for the most part. You won’t regret giving it a listen for sure. There are a couple of ways the character handles what’s happening that make zero sense to me like the way she doesn’t utilize the internet while she still has it even though she knows that she only has so long before it will no longer be an option. Or the way she realizes that the whole world has pets locked inside houses who will starve to death unless she at the very least let’s them or or even better takes them home or starts feeding them. Then she proceeds to have zero sense of urgency about it and wanders around for half a day only rescuing five of them. That was frustrating to listen to but hey- it’s not like I think the world is made up of people who think and feel exactly the same way I do- and that’s ok. So..yeah. Anyways. This is a well made little independent production. High five creator!

it would be a great movie